Mercer’s Total

Remuneration Survey (TRS)

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About the reports

The survey results are presented in a set of predefined reports*, including:
• Overview
• Survey Methodology and Definitions
• Participant List
• Policy and Practice Reports
• Library Jobs Detailed Report – Complete PC
• Library Jobs Detailed Report – Grouped by PC
• Library Jobs Summary Report
• Position Class Reports (Actual and Regressed Data)
• Year Over Year Trends
• Excel Download of Actual and Regressed Data
• Mercer Job Library – Jobs and Roll-ups Catalog

all the above reports are published to MercerWIN®.

*Availability of individual reports may vary depending on a survey and country.

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Overview
A starting point to the survey providing overall information on the survey
database size as well participant organizations profile including sector,
parent organization nationality, revenue and employment.
This report also offers an overview of the market pay trends relative to the prior year.
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Survey methodology
and definitions
The report where you can find data types descriptions and clarifications
as well as information how remuneration statistics are calculated and
displayed in the reports, or how to understand remuneration components.
This report gives detail information on job matching methodology, Mercer Job Library catalog and Mercer’s
International Evaluation System (IPE).
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Participant list
This report lists organizations which took part in the survey in the current
year, providing information on the participant organizations’ group name,
industry super sector and sector.
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Policy and Practice reports

A comprehensive report covering organizations’ policies with regards
to remuneration, guaranteed cash, short-term incentives, long-term
incentives and benefits.
Give an overview of the prevalence of practices and policies for short and long-term incentives and
benefits plans.
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Policy and Practice reports

Organization remuneration policy
This section covers the main policies and trends in the scope of remuneration, including but not limited to
salary review policy, hot jobs and hiring intentions.
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Policy and Practice reports

Short-term incentives (STI)
A comprehensive chapter which presents conclusions on an approach to short-term incentives, including
performance bonus/sales incentives eligibility, target performance bonus/target sales incentives as % of
base salary, performance criteria and more.
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Policy and Practice reports

Long-term incentives (LTI)
An extensive information source on various aspects of long-term incentives management across the
market, including policies relating to LTI eligibility, plan structures, performance measures, grant
frequency or types of vesting.
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Policy and Practice reports

Benefits
This section presents benefit policies of extensive coverage, including core benefits such as retirement,
medical, life assurance and disability or company cars, as well as country-specific local components.
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Library Jobs detailed report

Detailed set of statistics presenting a wide range of reported
compensation components for each job reported in a given survey.
Depending on a version may include figures for a full span of Position Classes available for each job or data
grouped in Position Class ranges appropriate for each position.
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Library Jobs summary report

This formatted summary report includes actual market data analysis by
Jobs, Core Jobs and Mercer Combined Jobs.
Report allows for quick filtering, importing and systematic data retrieval. The data is segmented by Job
Family (each family has its own tab) and presents key compensation elements (e.g., Base Salary, Total Cash
Actual) and statistics. A handy guide tab is included.
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Position Class report

(actual and regressed data)
A compilation of actual and regressed market data tables, as well as
charts depicting regressed market data lines for each of the main
compensation elements.
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Year over year trends

The report presents trends in Base Salary, Total Guaranteed Cash and
Total Cash (Actual) by benchmark Jobs and IPE Position Classes through a
comparison analysis to last year’s data.
The year over year trends are presented for the same incumbents, same organizations/job level, and all
organizations in both years. In addition to including both incumbent and organization weighted actual
market data, this report also includes analysis using regressed market data.
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Excel download of actual and

regressed data
Job detail
Aggregated actual data survey results for all the jobs published in a given survey, including a standard set
of statistics (25th and 75th percentiles, mean and median) for various compensation elements.
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Excel download of actual and

regressed data
PC–Regression
Regressed market data by Position Class (PC) or by Career Stream and Position Class, covering a standard
set of statistics (25th and 75th percentiles, mean and median) for main compensation elements.
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Mercer Job Library jobs

and roll-ups catalog
The report includes all benchmark Jobs, Core Jobs and Mercer Combined
Jobs in a single file along with their key attributes (e.g., titles, descriptions).
The file also includes the relationships between Jobs and Core Jobs as well as the relationship between Jobs
and Mercer Combined Jobs.
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Mercer WIN® —
Total Remuneration Survey
live results
Mercer WIN® allows you to perform online analyses based on Mercer
survey results. The software offers a truly flexible approach, being capable
of running live calculations, looking through different data perspectives
and applying various filtering criteria.

Home page
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Mercer WIN®
Search page
Apply various filtering criteria to narrow down survey results according to your needs.
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Mercer WIN®
Mercer market data – filters (Job industry)
Select Industry typical for the jobs you are looking for.

Mercer market data – filters (Job family)

Shift through various Job Families to analyze different aspects of your workforce.
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Mercer WIN®
Mercer market data – filters (function)
The Function option provides an additional lens in which to search across Library jobs and is organized
around Function and Department. When a selection is made in the Family filter, the Function filter
becomes disabled.

Mercer market data – filters (career level)

Select appropriate Career Levels to focus on different employee groups within your organizations.
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Mercer WIN®
Mercer market data – filters (Job type)
The Job Type filter is another new way in the system which allows you to search for either Jobs, Core Jobs,
Mercer Combined Jobs or all types. If no selection is made here, a job level is set up by default.

Job type
Core Job – an aggregate of underlying Jobs within a Sub-family at a specific Career Level
Mercer Combined Job – pre-defined combination of jobs
Job – basic survey results representing a specific type of work at a specific Career Level
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Mercer WIN®
Core Job
Core Job – an aggregate of underlying Jobs within a Sub-family at a specific Career Level.

Mercer Combined Job

Mercer Combined Job – pre-defined combination of jobs.
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Mercer WIN®
Mercer market data – view
Select different views and create your own templates to move between Job, Position Class, Family and
Career Stream data display. Add columns representing a wide range of compensation elements.

Refinements
Choose from a versatile set of market data refinements to generate results aligned with your
organization’s profile or the type of position you wish to analyze.
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Mercer WIN®
Refinements – peer group
To compare your own company to a defined list of competitors, you can select a Peer Group.
A minimum of 10 organizations is required to create a peer group of which 8 must be
distinct organizations.

Age data
Adjust survey results to a certain point in time, using factors such as median base salary increase rate
or inflation.
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Mercer WIN®
Combine Jobs
Merge Mercer benchmarks to align better with your internal grading or increase data sample.

Combine Position Classes

Merge Position Classes for particular jobs or the whole market according to your needs.
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Mercer office or visit our website at:
www.mercer.com/trs

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